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Russian architects Arch-group and ABTB have completed the interior of Moscow's electricity control room.

Designed for Moscow United electricity network company, the control room houses a podium with six workstations that face a wall of screens displaying information about the city's electricity network.

Here's some more information from Arch-group:

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This is project of the reconstruction of the network control centre of electricity- distribution company MOESK. The main space is the control room.

There in a space of 320 m2 the we placed a two-level podium made of corian with workstations for six controllers and a wall of video screens. The wall consists of 36 Barco video cubes showing info on the condition of the electricity network.

Other space is decorated laconically. Such decision and dark floor have underlined the dynamical form of a snow-white podium. The wall finish is perforated BILDEX. The luminescent lamps hidden behind the translucent ceiling - light up the space. Powerful projectors are turned to the workstations.

Yeah, cable nightmare. Also, if you are disabled, you don't have any place working for United Electric in Moscow...

I see plenty of people tripping on the little flares at the bottom of the steps, and falling off the steep incline at the front of the workstation. You'd hate to drop a pen or pencil, it would roll forever. Ergonomically, this is a joke, but it would make a nice set piece. I see people "working" here for a commercial shoot, nothing more.

bodkin

really nice, imagine the power trip you'd get working there all day. I have to agree with stan in that the cable management lets the whole thing down a bit, if only they'd put that little bit more thought into it. I love the ceiling as well with the ghostly glow from the lights and would be interested to know how you change the tubes when they eventually fail, the ceilings really high and theres no obvious way to remove the panelling, although I'm sure they've thought about that......

LOW

Now all they need there is Shatner in the control chair.
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Love it though.

Very beautiful lines, very thoroughbred and elegant. I like very much! On the other hand, it is damage that the door is off-centered with regard to the axis and to the principle of a symmetry used in this realization. Just my two cents!